The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-20
WEDDING IlIIIS
" While bellies their lovely graccs spread,
Ahd iops around them hutter:
III be content with Miss IRnie Bread

While bellies their lovely graccs spread,
Aid fops around them hutter:
/ III be content with Miss IRnie Bread
/ Aud won't have any bWi hcr.-BUTTER
Thus spoke a certain young man the
other day. The wedding day is fixed.
He means business. He was about TO
/ postpone the affair, but after inspecting
John McGraih d Sons immense stock of
new goods, he said everything was so
cheap that he would delay no longer. lie
/ first bought a suit Of clothes upon which
he saved enough to buy a pair Of those
celebrated and warranted 81. so Button
cd shoes" lie didn't buy his hat yet.
lie was shown such large variety and
all so stylish and elegant, that he was un-
decided which one to get. He concluded
to bring his girl in and let her de, ide, be-
sides be is anxious for her to see those
lovely dress goods, satius, velvets
and plush that he heard the ladies prais-
ing so highly. He said there we're two
things about John McGrath q Sons store
that suited him exactly. First, he adj
lieve i'll rrGHgli"g and Je,cipg. All goods
have proper market rdlue, and should be-
sold accordingly. If cotton is worth 9
cents per pound, it brings 9 cents and
Not te" cents. If sweet potatoes are
worth, on the market, 80 cents per bush
el, there is 10 use in asking S100 1.-THE
market price of eggs is 10 cents, nobody
Will pay you 20 cents, hut will consider
you dishonest if you ask such price. So
1t is with goods in u store They have
a market rdlae just the same as your cot.
ton, corn, potatoes, eggs, etc, and should
be sold accordingly. If suit of clothes
is worth $1,000, it should sell for that price,
and not $l2.50. Don't think that because
the merchant asks you $1,000 and jews
down to Sl2. so that he is SELLING at actual
cost: and if he throws in = cent collar
button or cheap cravat, don't begin to
feel sorry for him and think he is losing
money. You need the sympathy, for
with all the je,ring, and splitting of the
difference, you are the victim and have
pan" Fi~'"V Ioi Il SloOU suit. Inc JeNlnS
system means X92 signs and get all / can.
The OHe-price system means selling price
in plain figures and sell as Ior as can.
The jewing system says, keep your GUS
toners i'll the dark and get big profits.
The OHe-price says turn on the light,
mark goods low down and sell TO ererv
body alike. The jewing system is the
merchants reserred pO'r0, the tricky mer-
chants SdlratiOR, as it affords him the
chance to sell you an article belop cost, to
rope you in, and fairly skin you on some
thing else. The One-price system prevents
this, as selling price is marked in plain
figures and you can see for yorr8cIf. The
jewing system is n relic of by-gone days
and is fast playing out. The ope-pricc
system is just, far and sensible. 1t is
used Ill all the cities by ere,y respectable
house, even among the Jewish establish
ments. Lehman, of Chicago, II Jew. the
proprietor of ''Lehmau's Fair, the larg.
est retail store in that famous city. marks
his selling price in plain fgWrcs, aud has
strictly one price, no je,ring. So it is with
"Wanamaker of Philadelphia, one of
the largest dealers in clothing i'll the
world. A. I. Stewart, the merchant
prince of the world, adopted the one-price
system from the beginning of his career
John McGrath * Sons are the only one
price merchants in Brookhaven. The see
ond thing that suited the young man so
we'll was the very large stock of goods
that McGrath & Sons carry. He likes to
buy where there is a large assortment to
select from. The way McGrath kept
dlawing ont hats on him surprised as well
as amused him.
The McGraths are hard workers and
live merchants. They have just finished
charging aud improving their store. 1t
fairly shines, Int their elegant new goods
outshine every thing. They have aston
ished the natives. Such an array of fine
goods and new styles was never before
opened up i'll place the size of Brook
haven.